Arsenal: Serge Gnabry Contract A Step In Right Direction

SWANSEA, WALES - APRIL 14: Serge Gnabry of Arsenal during the match between Swansea City and Arsenal at Landore Training Ground on April 14, 2016 in Swansea, Wales. (Photo by David Price/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)
SWANSEA, WALES - APRIL 14: Serge Gnabry of Arsenal during the match between Swansea City and Arsenal at Landore Training Ground on April 14, 2016 in Swansea, Wales. (Photo by David Price/Arsenal FC via Getty Images) /
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There may not be too many signings happening for Arsenal with the time ticking, but locking in someone like Serge Gnabry is a step in the right direction.

I wouldn’t say that I was necessarily ‘worried’ that Arsenal were going to sell Serge Gnabry. I was mortified by the actual idea of it but, despite how much I tried to convince myself of it’s possibility, it never seemed that much of a threat. Granted, when teams started sniffing, I started sweating, but that looks, for now at least, to be all over.

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Arsene Wenger, who is busy not signing anyone, has taken time out of his hectic schedule to assure us that he did indeed take Hertha Berlin to take a hike. Or something like that.

“I want to keep Serge Gnabry, and to extend his contract. Because I think we stood by him for a long time,” he said as quoted by ESPNFC. He went on to speak of the loan from hell at West Brom and assure us that “I think he’s here now for a long time and it’s important that he stays with us.”

Given Gnabry’s Olympic heroics, which Wenger may or may not deserve credit for, the young German is stepping up in the international spectrum. After having broken through with Arsenal at the age of 18 and showed to be like another version of the Ox, we have been deprived of his brilliance ever since.

While the Olympics have shown his rust at time, I believe the lad is allowed to have some rust given how rough his past two years have been. This is working wonders for his confidence and his return to Arsenal will – hopefully – be just as magical as we could ever imagine.

While transfer windows will always be the bane of Arsene Wenger, building for the future is not. These past few years, Wenger has been solidifying an excellent crop of young players to carry on the proud legacy of Arsenal. Ideally, they will usher forth a time when the transfer window is not such a necessity. Ideally.

Serge Gnabry is a big piece of that. While extending his stay is not ‘as good as a transfer’, it is pretty close. He probably won’t have too much of an immediate impact this year but if building for the future can at all help us cope with the struggles of the present, than this potential contract is indeed a big deal.

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Now the trick is finding him some room to play.